Re: [bisect] regression in suspend with i915 on 82852/855GM

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> suspend/resume results in the backlight not coming back to life
> on my X40 laptop with an “Display controller: Intel Corporation
> 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device”.
>
> I bisected the issue. Apparently, commit
> b0cd324faed23d10d66ba6ade66579c681feef6f introduced the problem.
>
>     Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
>     Date:   Wed Nov 12 16:25:43 2014 +0200
>
>         drm/i915: don't save/restore backlight hist ctl registers
>
> I can confirm that suspend works as expected with a 4.1 kernel if
> the lines to dump/undump the BLC_HIST_CTL register are
> reintroduced; see the attached patch. (According to a web search,
> the same issue seems to have arisen before in 2009, see [1].)
>
> Let me know if you’d like me to run further tests on that
> particular hardware.

Please run 'intel_reg read 0x61260' after resume both on the patched and
unpatched kernel to see what the hardware wants. The tool is in the
intel-gpu-tools package [1].

BR,
Jani.

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/

>
> Best,
> Philipp
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-October/004490.html
>
>
> From 2f5f519dd77cdd27f5a88413d8125fb23f6e526f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:37:28 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: save and restore BLC_HIST_CTL during suspend/resume
>
> This partially reverts b0cd324fae...
>
> Without considering the BLC_HIST_CTL register the backlight on an IBM
> X40 (855GM) remains dark after suspend/resume. Include its value again
> with the saved registers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h     | 1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_suspend.c | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> index 8ae6f7f..f68e0b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -925,6 +925,7 @@ struct i915_suspend_saved_registers {
>  	u32 savePP_OFF;
>  	u32 savePP_CONTROL;
>  	u32 savePP_DIVISOR;
> +	u32 saveBLC_HIST_CTL;
>  	u32 saveFBC_CONTROL;
>  	u32 saveCACHE_MODE_0;
>  	u32 saveMI_ARB_STATE;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_suspend.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_suspend.c
> index cf67f82..f417744 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_suspend.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_suspend.c
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static void i915_save_display(struct drm_device *dev)
>  		dev_priv->regfile.savePP_ON_DELAYS = I915_READ(PP_ON_DELAYS);
>  		dev_priv->regfile.savePP_OFF_DELAYS = I915_READ(PP_OFF_DELAYS);
>  		dev_priv->regfile.savePP_DIVISOR = I915_READ(PP_DIVISOR);
> +		dev_priv->regfile.saveBLC_HIST_CTL = I915_READ(BLC_HIST_CTL);
>  	}
>  
>  	/* save FBC interval */
> @@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ static void i915_restore_display(struct drm_device *dev)
>  		I915_WRITE(PP_OFF_DELAYS, dev_priv->regfile.savePP_OFF_DELAYS);
>  		I915_WRITE(PP_DIVISOR, dev_priv->regfile.savePP_DIVISOR);
>  		I915_WRITE(PP_CONTROL, dev_priv->regfile.savePP_CONTROL);
> +		I915_WRITE(BLC_HIST_CTL, dev_priv->regfile.saveBLC_HIST_CTL);
>  	}
>  
>  	/* only restore FBC info on the platform that supports FBC*/
> -- 
> 2.4.2
>

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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